Numbers 32:39

New American Bible - revised edition

The descendants of Machir, son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and captured it, dispossessing the Amorites who were there.

Cross References

Genesis 50:23

He saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation, and the children of Manasseh’s son Machir were also born on Joseph’s knees. Death of Joseph.

2 Samuel 24:6

They continued on to Gilead and to the district below Mount Hermon. Then they proceeded to Dan; from there they turned toward Sidon,

Numbers 26:29

The descendants of Manasseh by clans were: through Machir, the clan of the Machirites. Now Machir begot Gilead: through Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.

Deuteronomy 3:15

To Machir I gave Gilead,

Joshua 17:1

Now as for the lot that fell to the tribe of Manasseh as the firstborn of Joseph: since Manasseh’s eldest son, Machir, the father of Gilead, was a warrior, who had already obtained Gilead and Bashan,

Judges 10:8

For eighteen years they afflicted and oppressed the Israelites in Bashan, and all the Israelites in the Amorite land beyond the Jordan in Gilead.

Judges 5:14

From Ephraim, their base in the valley; behind you, Benjamin, among your troops. From Machir came down commanders, from Zebulun wielders of the marshal’s staff.